𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 ˢʸˡᵛⁱᵉ ˡᵃᵘᶠᵉʸᵈᵒᵗᵗⁱʳ

sixteen

in which Mobius realizes

"What are you doing?"

Mobius asked, stepping into the room Hestia was locked in. She was trying to hack the computer, which was a bit too easy, and immediately stood up when she saw her brother. "Passing the time."

"Do you care about her?" Hestia knitted her eyebrows. "What do you mean?" He sighed and stepped in front of her, holding his hand up, a movement he would always do when it was serious.

"Do you care about Sylvie?"

"I'm not sure if that's the right word.." She trailed off, looking down at the thought of the goddess. Yeah, of course she liked Sylvie and her character, but would she do everything she possibly could for her? To be honest, Hestia had no idea.

"Do you really think you deserve to be alone?" He asked, she didn't answer.

"Hestia! Do you really believe you deserve to be alone?" "I don't know." "You better figure it out quick, because the nexus event the two of you caused, whatever that connection is, can bring this whole place down. So we better understand-" "We?" She asked, cutting her brother off with realization now in her face.

"Do you swear she didn't implant those memories in Hunter C-20?" He asked, his voice tense. He had to know.

"Loki told you." Hestia mumbled, looking up at him again. She realized that Loki told him about the fact that they weren't created by the time-keepers, the fact that they had a life before this. He wouldn't believe him, but after the talk with Ravonna, he started to.

He nodded. "I believe her. She showed me memories of my own, and it all felt extremely real. We both were there as children, with our parents."

"So, I just have to trust the words of two Lokis?" Mobius' eyes were glossy as he asked.

"No." She spoke, laying her hand slowly on his lower arm. "You have to trust your sister."

~~~

The two siblings stormed into Loki's room and Mobius opened a time door.

"You stole Ravonnas TemPad?" Hestia asked while they stepped through the portal, coming out in a large room with green vines hanging from the walls and fire places in the walls, clearly impressed. "I borrowed it."

"Loki." The two spoke at the same time, causing the god to turn around. 

"What are you doing here?"

Hestia looked at Mobius and he just sighed before starting to explain. "Okay, straight to the point. You were right, about the TVA. You were right from the beginning. And if you wanna save Sylvie, Hestia and yourself, you need to trust us."

This was probably the first time Mobius ever spoke about him and his sister in the 'we' form.

"Can we do that?" Loki nodded. "Yes." "Okay. You could be whoever, whatever you wanna be, even someone good. I mean, just in case anyone ever told you different."

The god smiled sweetly and Mobius did the same. Hestia watched the two and even had to smile herself.

~~~

The three stepped out of the time-door together, but at the sight of who stood in front of them their smiles quickly vanished.

Ravonna Renslayer and four Minutemen had their weapons pointed at them.

 "I think you have something of mine." she spoke.

"Yeah, I got all the way down there before I even realized I picked up yours." He grabbed a TemPad out of his pocket, which was Renslayers, and gave it to a Hunter, who gave it back to Ravonna. "What's going on?

What's the problem, Ravonna?" There were tears in her eyes. She didn't want to do that. Hestia knew how close she and her brother were.

Mobius sighed and looked down. He knew exactly what was going on. "You know where I'd go if I could go anywhere?" He suddenly spoke up, causing Loki, Hestia and Ravonna to look at him.

"Wherever it is we're really from. Yeah, wherever we," He pointed between himself and his sister, "had a life before the TVA came along. Maybe I had a jet ski. That's what I'd like to do. Just riding around on my jet ski."

Renslayer let out a quiet sigh before speaking. "Prune him."

And they did.

~~~

Hestia stared in shock at the place where her brother just stood. Loki gasped from beside her and Ravonna turned her head to the side, not wanting to look.

The minutemen came forward and grabbed the two Variants, who didn't even bother fighting.

This was the end.